Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1887-04-15
The Tobacco Market.

Henry Lauts, shipping merchant, who
recently returned from trip to Europe.
said yesterday: "The outlook for Euro
pean trade in Maryland tobacco is very
encouraging. Confidence has been estab-
lished in the inspections, and complaints
on the other side OF the tobacco not being
equal to the samples have of course ceased.
This encouraging state of affairs. both for
planters and shippers, has been brought
about to great extent by the untiring
interest taken in the matter of inspections
by the Leaf Tobacco Association of Balti-
more"
The above paragraph, taken from the
Baltimore Daily Neps of the 9Th instant,
will afford some encouragement to our
farmers. Mr.. Lauts is said to be . man
whose statements may be relied upon and
his familiarity with the foreign trade in
tobacco attach greater importance to what
he says. 1t seems that the result which
was naturally expected to follow from the
amendments to the inspection laws made
by the last Legislature and which the
friends of the measure so confidently pre-
dicted for it, are to be realized. 1t was
natural to suppose that the practical guar
antee given to the State samples by the
amended law and the greater caution on
the part of the inspectors which would
necessarily follow, would restore conf
dence ir the State inspections. The Leaf
Tobacco Association of Baltimore, which
was the chief advocate of the recent a.
mendments to the law, has exertsd itself
to make its provisions and practical oper
alton generally known to the European
tobacco trade and to their efforts the pros
pective good effects upon the market OF
our tobacco, if they should he realized,
will be largely due.
1t is to be hoped that the State inspec-
tors will continue to accept the spirit of
the law and give their cooperation in its
successful application. 1t is to be hoped,
too, that our tobacco growers will accept
the suggestion heretofore made to them
by the Leaf Tobacco Association through
its circulars and pay more regard to the
quality of their productions than to the
quantity. A small quantity of tobacco of
good quality, carefully handled, will ind
9 ready sale and bring good prices; thus
paying the grower more money than .
large quantity of inferior tobacco, for
which it is often difficult to find any sale
at all. 1t has been the large quantities of
inferior tobacco grown upon poor lands
by the aid of badly manipulated CONNER
cial fertilizers, which has grown up in re-
cent years, that has done so much toward
dissenting Maryland tobacco in the for
eign markets.
With an improvement. in the quality OF
our production and the method of hand
ling and with the present better feeling in
Europe, it is to be hoped that the growth
of tobacco may again become remunera-
tive to OUT planters. But there is one
point upon which our farmers should
make up their minds, and that is that the
day il past when tobscco should be relied
upon as the chief staple production oi
this section. Our excellent geographical
location and the adaptsbility of our soil
to the growth of fruits and various vege-
table products for American consumption
points to these products as the mos. re-
munerative to our people. And they
should begin to prepare for the change
But As this change must be effected grad
ually, it is gratifying to know that tobac-
CO promises to again repay little more
than the cost of production.